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"All actors are incredibly insecure."
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"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."

"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."

"I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff."
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"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."


"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."


"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."


"Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven."


"In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic."


"I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were."
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